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The reshaping of Persian art

Szántó, Iván & Yuka Kadoi (eds.). 2019. The reshaping of Persian art: Art histories of Islamic Iran and Centra Asia (Acta et Studia XV). Piliscsaba: The Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies.

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Revisiting the Historiography of Persian Art
IVÁN SZÁNTÓ and YUKA KADOI

I. CONSTRUCTING AND RECONSTRUCTING PERSIAN ART

Friedrich Sarre (1865 – 1945): The Reconstruction of His Collection of Islamic Art
JOACHIM GIERLICHS

Business, Diplomacy and Arts: Two Swiss Collectors of Persian Art
ELIKA PALENZONA-DJALILI

II. FORMULATING PERSIAN ART

Collecting Persian Art in Georgia
IRINA KOSHORIDZE

Alexandre Roinashvili and the Persian Metalwork Collection in the Georgian National Museum
IRINA GUGUNAVA

Simon Khanukaev and the Persian Ceramic Collection in the Georgian National Museum
NATIA DEMURISHVILI

III. STUDYING PERSIAN ART

The Study of Persian Art on the Eve of World War II: The Third Congress of Iranian Art and Archaeology in 1935
YUKA KADOI

The Third International Congress of Iranian Art and Archaeology in 1935: Russian Perspectives
DARIA VASILYEVA

IV. REBUILDING AND REPRESENTING PERSIAN ART

The Timurid Mausoleum of Gūr-i Amīr as an Ideological Icon
ELENA PASKALEVA .

Bihzād in Italy, Raphael in Afghanistan: 20th-Century Encounters via Berlin
IVÁN SZÁNTÓ

V. ENVISIONING PERSIAN ART

Parallel Odysseys of Ernst Herzfeld and Ernst Diez
ZEHRA TONBUL